The Quad Urbanist

 No post midweek this week, except: take this survey if you're in the QCA to tell our transit agencies what they should prioritize!

 Here in the QCA we have rather a lot of water, most of it contained within the Mississippi River. Most human settlements have water, of cou...

 As I anticipate visiting Montréal again sometime this summer, I was looking back over my old photos from visiting it before, and it made me...

 After a couple years now of biking to work (most days) in the Quad Cities, I have a few thoughts I'd like to share on the idea of expec...

 It has struck me repeatedly recently that there are some very odd things about how we do infrastructure around cars: and particularly the w...

 No pictures today, because I'm talking about something that people do in my neighborhood a lot and since it involves actual people doin...

I have, as the title might suggest, a love/hate relationship with the US Interstate system (and its cousins, like the TransCanada Highway). ...